Production Manager

Work Model: This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.

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Position Overview

The Production Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for assigned production operations supporting the manufacture of electromechanical clutch and brake products for industrial, aerospace, and defense applications. This role is accountable for safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, inventory, and associate development, while translating business priorities into operating plans, capacity and staffing strategies, and measurable performance objectives. The Production Manager leads through frontline leaders, builds organizational capability, advances continuous improvement and daily management disciplines, and partners across Operations, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Sales, Customer Service, Finance, and Human Resources to resolve constraints and achieve customer, financial, and business commitments.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for assigned production areas, translating business objectives into priorities and establishing accountability for safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and inventory performance.
  • Build a strong safety culture and ensure compliance with applicable policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Establish and sustain a continuous improvement operating system using Lean manufacturing practices, standard work, visual management, and disciplined problem-solving routines across assigned production areas.
• Develop and execute multi-year improvement plans that increase operational capability, strengthen workplace organization, and deliver measurable improvements in safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and inventory.
• Establish performance management routines, analyze operational and financial results, identify underlying trends and risks, and hold leaders accountable for timely corrective actions and sustained improvement.
• Lead, coach, and develop frontline leaders and production associates; build organizational capability through performance management, workforce development, succession planning, and a strong pipeline of leadership talent.
• Own the development and execution of annual operating plans, budgets, staffing strategies, capacity plans, and resource requirements for assigned production operations, ensuring alignment with business priorities and financial commitments.
  • Ensure compliance with the Quality Management System and ISO 9001 requirements.
• Lead cross-functional planning and decision-making with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Sales, Finance, and Human Resources to resolve constraints, balance priorities, and deliver customer and business commitments.
• Provide leadership for the resolution of significant customer delivery and quality issues, ensuring effective containment, root-cause correction, clear communication, and sustained preventive action.
• Lead business unit and enterprise initiatives that improve operational capability, standardize best practices, and advance strategic business priorities.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 5+ years of supervisory or production leadership experience in a dynamic manufacturing environment.

• Demonstrated experience applying Lean manufacturing, Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, or comparable continuous improvement methods to improve safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, or inventory performance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through frontline leaders, build team capability, manage performance, develop successors, and establish accountability for business results.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, communication, and influencing skills, with demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams and aligning stakeholders around operational priorities and business objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret operational and financial data, identify performance trends and root causes, prioritize corrective actions, and make sound, timely decisions using available information and business judgment.
• Proficiency with ERP, manufacturing, and standard business systems used for production planning, performance management, communication, and data analysis.
• Experience supporting customer commitments and leading the resolution of delivery, quality, or service issues in partnership with internal teams and customers.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, science, business, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant manufacturing leadership experience will be considered.
• Experience in electromechanical, industrial, aerospace, or defense manufacturing.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a 'U.S. Person', which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company's electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company's automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company's end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. If you'd like to view a copy of the company's affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email View email address on click.appcast.io you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail View email address on click.appcast.io.

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